Electronic Devices and Corresponding Methods for Indicating Content Creating Device Geometric Form Factor

Abstract

An electronic device with a deformable housing supports at least one display and includes sensors to detect the device's geometric configuration. Processors, operable with the sensors, present content with visual indicia that identify the deformed geometry at which the content was originally created, unless the current device configuration matches the original geometric configuration. The visual indicia may include instructions for adjusting the device to match the original geometry, enhancing the playback experience. The content's originating geometric configuration can be stored as metadata, allowing for accurate reconstruction during playback. This system addresses the challenges of screen recording and playback on foldable devices by incorporating the device's folding angle information into the screen recording process, thus ensuring playback reflects the original recording conditions.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method in an electronic device, the method comprising presenting, by a user interface, content with visible indicia indicating an originating electronic device geometric configuration at which the content was created unless a geometric configuration of the electronic device substantially matches the originating electronic device geometric configuration. 
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the originating electronic device geometric configuration is written to metadata of the content. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the visible indicia depict an originating electronic device. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the content is presented on a display of the originating electronic device. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the visible indicia depict the originating electronic device in a partially deformed geometry defined by the originating electronic device geometric configuration. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the visible indicia depict the originating electronic device having a first device housing that is pivotable about a hinge relative to a second device housing between an axially displaced open position and a closed position. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the visible indicia further depict the originating electronic device with the first device housing pivoted relative about the hinge relative to the second device housing partially between the axially displaced open position and the closed position. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the visible indicia comprise instructions for transitioning the electronic device to the originating electronic device geometric configuration. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 monitoring, using one or more sensors, changes in the geometric configuration of the electronic device while the content is presented; and   removing, by the user interface, the visible indicia when the changes in the geometric configuration cause the geometric configuration to substantially match the originating electronic device geometric configuration.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the originating electronic device geometric configuration comprises multiple geometric configurations that occurred in an originating electronic device while the content was created. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the visible indicia indicating the originating electronic device geometric configuration at which the content was created is always presented with the content when a device housing of the electronic device is non-deformable. 
     
     
         12 . An electronic device, comprising:
 a deformable device housing supporting at least one display;   one or more sensors operable to detect a geometric configuration of the deformable device housing; and   one or more processors operable with the one or more sensors;   the one or more processors presenting content identifying a deformed geometry at which an originating electronic device was configured when creating the content with visual indicia identifying the deformed geometry unless the one or more sensors detect the deformable device housing substantially matching the deformed geometry.   
     
     
         13 . The electronic device of  claim 12 , wherein:
 the deformable device housing comprises a first device housing that is pivotable about a hinge relative a second device housing between an axially displaced open position and a closed position; and   the at least one display comprises a flexible display coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spanning the hinge.   
     
     
         14 . The electronic device of  claim 13 , wherein the visual indicia depict another electronic device having another first device housing that is pivotable about another hinge relative to another second device housing with the another first device housing pivoted about the another hinge relative to the another second device housing partially between the axially displaced open position and the closed position. 
     
     
         15 . The electronic device of  claim 12 , wherein the visual indicia instruct how to transform the deformable device housing to match the deformed geometry. 
     
     
         16 . The electronic device of  claim 15 , the one or more processors removing the visual indicia when the deformable housing transitions to substantially match the deformed geometry while the content is being presented. 
     
     
         17 . The electronic device of  claim 12 , wherein the content comprises a screen shot captured by the originating electronic device while the originating electronic device was in a deformed geometric configuration. 
     
     
         18 . A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
 receiving, by a user interface, user input requesting a presentation of content having written to its metadata at least one geometric configuration of an originating electronic device occurring when the content was created; and   presenting, by one or more processors on the user interface, the content within an electronic device depiction having the at least one geometric configuration until the electronic device transitions to the at least one geometric configuration.   
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 18 , the at least one geometric configuration comprising a deformed geometric configuration where a first device housing portion is skew relative to a second device housing portion. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the presentation of the content on the user interface causes the content to appear on a display of the originating electronic device.